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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pragmatism Section II (Lectures V-VIII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James suggests the naturalist approach consists of living __________.
(a) Simply.
(b) Frugally.
(c) Positively.
(d) Negatively.

2. The second lens James describes that is used for seeing the world is which of the following?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Pluralism.
(d) Lies.

3. What does James identify as a "sick soul"?
(a) One who has reached a state of psychological rock-bottom.
(b) One who has made a difficult decision.
(c) One who has committed a crime.
(d) One who is psychologicall and emotionally empty.

4. James identifies the difference between those who are saintly and those who are not as which of the following?
(a) Moral vs. immoral.
(b) Having vs. seeing.
(c) Virtue vs. vices.
(d) Being vs. doing.

5. What kind of experiences does James say deliver people from the suffering of duality?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Rational.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Individual.

Short Answer Questions

1. James says that there are how many ways of looking at the poem "To You"?

2. Whom does James refer to as feeling fundamentally fed up with life?

3. In Lecture III, James compares mysticism to ____________.

4. James says that for a man to experience the divine, what must he let go?

5. For whom is truth an inert static relationship, according to James?

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